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The province says it is spending an extra $11 million this year to reduce wait times for scans, on top of a $33-million increase from last year.

The recently released first volume of Navigating the Path Forward for Dementia in Canada: The Landmark Study predicts a significant increase in the number of Canadians living with dementia over the next three decades.

If granted royal assent, Bill C-31 would provide qualifying families with children under the age of 12 with up to $650 per child each year to pay for dental care services, depending on their household income.

In Ontario, nearly 900,000 people live with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

The donation to Melbourne's The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, also known as the Doherty Institute, will go toward creating the Cumming Global Center for Pandemic Therapeutics.

Sandoz was one of two Swiss companies that merged more than a quarter-century ago to form Novartis.

Ken Monteith, executive director of a network of AIDS organizations in Quebec called COCQ-SIDA, says Canada is not on track to meet global targets regarding the sexual health of people living with HIV.

More Canadians now have prescription drug coverage, with the number of uninsured Canadians decreasing from 5.2% in 2016 to 2.8% in 2020.